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In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of June 27 - July 1, 2016
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SLS Booster Passes Major Milestone on Journey to Mars
It was a huge week for NASA's next great ship, the Space Launch System. The rocket's booster roared to life for its final full-scale test before SLS’s first uncrewed test flight with NASA’s Orion spacecraft in late 2018. Check out SLS's home page for full coverage including features, releases, videos and more.
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Juno Meets Jupiter for July Fourth Fireworks
If you’re looking for fireworks on the Fourth of July, look no farther than the planet Jupiter. After a nearly five-year, 1.74 billion-mile trip, a basketball court-sized spacecraft called Juno will fire its main engine for 35 minutes, placing it into a polar orbit around the gas giant.
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Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population
Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and an international network of telescopes to reveal the identity of an unusual source of radio waves in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery implies that there could be a vast number of black holes in our galaxy that have gone unnoticed until now.
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This Week in NASA History: ABMA Transferred to NASA, Creating Marshall Center
Happy 46th birthday, Marshall! This week in 1960, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was officially transferred to NASA, creating the Marshall Space Flight Center. For more interesting NASA and Marshall history facts and photos, visit Marshall's History Album on Flickr.
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